Chinua Achebe's newest book that is titled "THERE WAS A COUNTRY:A PERSONAL HISTORY OF BIAFRA" has truly divided Nigerians and the national public opinions about this war. Biafran war was the worst chapter in the entire history of Nigeria to date. Every effort has been made by every successive government in Nigeria to date including the military government that prosecuted the Biafran war to sweep the whole truth about this war under the carpet of history forever or to also rewrite the true account of this war to suit their own tribal or regional goals and the myopic national objectives of the Nigerian leaders that are neither patriotic or nationalistic in the name of one Nigeria and national unity.
Achebe's book on the Biafran war is a personal legacy and a first class account from one of the major actors on the Biafra's side of this war. The book asked the most important questions about this war that were never asked at the national and international levels before except the phrase "No Victor and No Vanguished". This book also serves as a national warning to the Nigerian nation in 2012 that has never learned any vital lesson to date from her brutal and past history. Nigeria today faces the likely possibility of this destructive event been repeated again in our lifetime in a nation that is passing through the same similar events of the 1960s that gave birth to the Biafran war and in a nation where the true wound of this war has not truly healed in all honesty and reality.
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